If we use alcohol as disinfectant, why drinking it doesnt solve throat infection / sore throat?

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If we use alcohol as disinfectant, why drinking it doesnt solve throat infection / sore throat?

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Answer 1

I’m not saying it actually worked, but it was a common home “remedy” to give Rock and Rye (a truly awful, cheap whiskey concoction) for sore throat when I was a child in the 70s southern US.